Genus: Sarcophaga
Meigen 1826
Subgenus: Sarcorohdendorfia
Baranov 1938
Species: praedatrix Walker 1849
Distribution
AUSTRALASIAN/OCEANIAN � (Australia � New South Wales, Northern
Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia).
Biology
Sarcophaga
praedatrix, also referred to as Sarcophaga
tryoni Johnston and Tiegs (1921), is a common
species throughout Australia. In Brisbane, larvae are not
believed to survive the cooler months between June and
August (Johnston and Tiegs, 1921). Sarcophaga
praedatrix has been caught at decayed-carrion baits
by KAM and has also been recorded by JFW in forensic cases
in Australia. Note that data on S. praedatrix
in the literature may include the undescribed species
here listed as 'Sarcophaga (Sarcorohdendorfia)
sp.nov.' (unnamed species near praedatrix).
Taxonomy
The larval instars were described by Cantrell
(1981; referred to as Tricholioproctia tryoni).
DNA barcode sequences of S. praedatrix have
been deposited in both GenBank and BOLD.
References
Cantrell, B.K. (1981) The immature stages of some Australian Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 20, 237-248.
Johnston, T.H., and Tiegs, O.W. (1921)
New and little-known sarcophagid flies from
south-eastern Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal
Society of Queensland 33, 46-90.
Walker,
F. (1849) 'List of the specimens of dipterous insects in
the collection of the British Museum.' (British Museum:
London) Part IV. pp. 689-1172.